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6 Habits of Truly Honest People
How to know that someone is genuinely honest
If you want to understand what sets genuinely honest people apart, look beyond surface-level behaviors and examine the habits that define their character. Here are six key habits of truly honest people:
They Protect Themselves from Situations That Encourage Dishonesty
One of the safest ways to break a bad habit is to avoid environments that make it easy to engage in that habit.
This seems like common sense, yet many people repeatedly put themselves in situations that fuel the very behaviors they’re trying to escape.
Psychologists often talk about the importance of priming your environment to support positive habits. For instance, if you’re trying to lose weight, why keep snacks within easy reach?
The same principle applies to cultivating honesty or any other virtue for that matter. Honest people are deeply aware of their own capacity for dishonesty.
Unlike those who rationalize or deny their weaknesses, they accept that even the most principled individuals can falter when placed in compromising situations.
To guard against this, they take proactive steps to design environments that minimize…
